"Flandry started off in flat sub-gee bounds. His body felt miraculously light..."
-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 339-606 AT XX, p. 594.
We have seen "...sub-gee bounds..." on Earth's Moon and Poul Anderson had seen them before writing A Knight... because the novel was published in 1974.
At this one point, our experience of space exploration meets Poul Anderson's future history.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I looked up the link and read of how Chereion's gravity was only half that of Terra. Which would certainly explain why Flandry was able to physically overcome Aycharaych near the end of HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE.
Sean
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